Yogi Berra’s quips were often used or paraphrased by politicians, including President Ronald Reagan. Even though they weren’t particularly political in nature they were good for a laugh and connected the speaker with baseball, which was America’s national pastime, at least in the days before Facebook was invented.

We don’t know if the late Chicago Cubs baseball great Ernie Banks was a Democrat or a Republican, conservative or liberal, but we do know that Bank’s infectious enthusiasm for the game of baseball and his perennially “in the cellar” Cubs has a lesson for conservatives in today’s political environment.